Carla Montero

Carla Montero was born in 1973 in Madrid where she lives with her husband and four children. Bachelor of Law and Business Administration, she has extensive work experience in training for companies and managers. The time she spends on writing she shares with hobbies such as yoga, cooking and traveling.

Winner of the Círculo de Lectores Award, Una dama en juego was her first novel, and sold more than 100,000 copies. La tabla esmeralda, her second novel, sold over 150,000 copies and rights to 6 countries. With La piel dorada and the latest novel El invierno en tu rostro she became an acclaimed bestselling writer in Spain and Latin America. With the novel El Jardin de las mujeres Verelli published in 2019 she gained a great number of new readers. The new novel El Medallón de fuego is to be published in October 2021.

Her novels are distinguished by the use of the historical frame with special attention to the first decades of the 20th century, well-knit plots and feminine protagonists.